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November 5, 2025

Ilya's testimony, Blueberry Earth, Hesychasm, "Making God"

wsj hyperstitioning the end of white-collar work (a).

Peter Wildeford: AI is probably not a bubble

Audrey Tang: AI alignment cannot be top-down

Zvi covers Ilya’s newly surfaced deposition testimony re: the 2023 OpenAI board fight.

Exploring the questions that matter:

What if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries?

There are hundreds of teachers in Iceland?

“Hesychasm is a contemplative monastic tradition… in which stillness (hēsychia) is sought through uninterrupted Jesus prayer.”

Quintin Frerichs on human enhancement companies.

Miguel Acevedo Álvarez.

Inkhaven 2025 is underway! You can follow along with the writers as they write.

Making God is one of the current crop of AI risk documentaries; i'm happy to see its trailer looking clean.


n.b. inclusion in this compilation does not imply endorsement by its compiler.

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